Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The difference was compounded even further with the consideration that American pay-rates were two or three times ours .
2 Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know .
3 Because I think he 's in a room above you , but two or three times she heard er the wireless that er someone
4 Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place .
5 If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’
6 My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately .
7 It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him .
8 Any time you do a record , or any time you practise anything new , you 're trying to be better at what you do .
9 If I was to pop my clogs at work or any time you 'd get fifty five thousand eight hundred eighty pounds .
10 Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m .
11 three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear
12 Or next time it could be Robin-Anne .
13 And that time we saw him he said he definitely were n't going on that holiday .
14 So as not to have to watch the empty road for the postman on the day that the results were due each girl went separately deep into the fields but they were n't able to stay alone for long ; and each time they came back to the road it was still empty .
15 They did it twice and each time they scored in the left corner , and each time Barnes converted from the touchline .
16 THE IMPROVEMENT in Safeway 's wines over the past few years is a continual source of pleasure to me , and each time they show their wine range to the world I turn up expecting just a little bit more .
17 But she was soon aware of his fat thigh pressing against hers , and each time they passed a gas lamp he turned to look at her .
18 they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past .
19 And each time they 've brought their own brand of hospitality .
20 And each time we visited the mountains , we would find the Syrians not an inch nor even a metre but at least a mile nearer to Beirut .
21 My uniform was soaked and each time we dipped down at arm 's bend our faces went into the muddy ice and water .
22 Yes yeah , I , I 'm also very disappointed that er er , in the negotiations that they did n't er er , come up with any sort of housing erm I think the , it 's mucking any future negotiations with other partners or developers , speculators whoever they may be , I think it 's important that we have , er we strike a balance between bu houses for sale and rented accommodation because , I mean they need to now the building er , this house for sale and each time we we we we knock down flats or building and ga gave the land free of charge to the speculators we have to de-count people , those people are moving th the existing te er people on the waiting list and they 're getting moved further and further back and er I think i i i it 's a very worrying situation where we are continually giving land free of charge and they 're getting no rented accommodation .
23 Be prepared to train twice as hard on your weaker side and each time you feel fed-up through lack of progress , switch to your stronger side to give yourself a boost .
24 And each time you work it out , it 's more it it becomes more er one you remember rather than one you have to work out .
25 And each time you come to the exercise each time they says they say Here you are solve read through it with a bit of paper over it .
26 ‘ I shall want to know all about you , and each time you fail to answer , I 'm afraid I shall have to use my little persuader . ’
27 and each time you go out and look at the crop update
28 This was one of only two occasions Botham tasted victory as England captain , the other being in a one-day game against Australia a year later , and each time he was there at the death .
29 Each time a guard arrived , either with food or to let me out to the lavatory , I asked for a book , and each time he said ‘ Yes ’ and did n't bring one .
30 Poor Leopold at home was clearly pining for his son : in a touching letter he confessed that he felt sad at times , being unable to hear Wolfgang playing the piano and violin , and each time he approached his home he half expected to hear the familiar sound of his son 's fiddle .
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